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Well, for non-German speaking europeans it makes sense, last time I checked .world was the only decently-sized English-speaking server in my area.
EDIT: well, apparently that’s no longer the case, good to be wrong I guess
Lots of instances are hosted in Europe, maybe even the majority. I know lemm.ee and lemmy.ml are
Lemm.ee still shows up as “private” in the Observer, but I don’t know how I missed .ml being in France (I really doubt they somehow “ moved” the server). Checking again you’re right though, the situation got a lot better over time.
Why does this matter? You can see everything on lemmy.world even if you come from a small instance. Size is not necessarily a benefit here.
A small instance has a higher probability of the owner stopping maintaining it. Obviously this doesn’t apply if the instance is yours, but I’m not tech-savvy enough to do that.
You actually raise a good point: People may not join a smaller instance if you're not confident it's going to hang around.
I might see if I can publish a contingency/continuity plan in our next community update.
True, that's fair. But I'd still join a small server to give it a chance and to keep them afloat. Small servers would maybe stay around more if more people joined :)